Improvement in clothes-pins



n. B. sANnERsoN & DQH. LINscoTT.

CLOTHES-PINS,

N0 188,417, Patented March 1a,` 1877.

UNITED STATES DANIEL B. SANDERSON AND DANIEL H. LINSOOTI, OF LEWISTN, MAINE.y

PATENT FFIGE.

.-IMPROVEMENT lN CL'THES-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,417, dated March 13, .187-7; application led February 11,1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, DANIEL B. SANDER- soN and DANIEL H. LrNsooTT, both of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have'invented certain new and use- I- y ful'Improvements in Clothes-Pins; andwc do.

hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had-to the accompanying drawings, and t0 the letters ot' reference marked thereon,

whichiorm a part ot' this specification, and inl whichv Figure' l is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a similarview of our im proved clothes-pin clamping-a piece ot1 linen on the line; land Fig. 3 represents our improved clothes-pin as 'used on a thin line, or for clamping thin fabric on anv ordinary line.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate correspondin g parts in all the figures.

Our improved clothes pin or clamp is made ot' a single piece of galvanized or plated wire,

bent, by suitable appliances or machinery, intothe shape represented in the several iigures ot' thedrawing, viz: NVe'irst bend the piece of wire which is to form the clothes-pin in the middle, s0 as tot'orm a spring loop or' other, by making a double bend or bow in each of the legs; and, finally, the ends or points of these are bentl so as toform hooks a a, crossing and sliding upon each other, as shown.

By this construction-that is, the arrangement of the two recesses a: y, and of the hooked ends tta-two advantages are gained, viz., rst, the hooks a a will preventthe pin from being driven down upon the line beyond the ends ot' the wires, which makes it very difficult to remove the pin without perforating or tearing the fabric held by it; and, second, the upper .smaller recess y will accommodate itsclt' to a smaller line than the main recess x, or it will serve to fasten rthinner or finer fabric on an ordinary line, which would not be held sufficiently tight by the jaws of the largerrecess w..

We are aware ot' thepatent to Eastman, June 27, 1&76, which is for a clothes-pin the general construction ot' which somewhat resembles ours. It omits, however, the hooked crossed ends a, a, which are the principal advantage ot' our invention, and, in fact, constitute our improvement.

Having thus described our improvement, we claim' and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an improved article of manufacture, the wire clothes-pin herein described, having" the Ksprin,r, ;loop'A, doubled legs or prongs B l5,

crossing each other, inner double jaws or recesses w and y, and double bent terminal hooks a a, crossing each other, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and specitied.

Intestimony that we claim the foregoing as 

